Across
- 2. First known written code of laws that includes an “eye for an eye.”
- 6. Pyramid-like structure used for the worshiping of gods by Sumerian society.
- 7. Spread of ideas and goods from one place to another.
- 9. Type of paper made of plants from the Nile River Valley that made record-keeping more efficient.
- 12. Shift in human history from food gathering to food producing with the domestication of plants and animals at the end of the last ice age.
- 14. Ancient artifact found by the French that has been used to decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
- 16. Form of symbolic writing developed in the Nile River Valley.
- 18. Civilization/area that developed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq/Iran.
- 19. Largest empire in the ancient world.
Down
- 1. System of writing in which symbols represent sounds instead of objects or ideas.
- 3. Worshipping one god.
- 4. Society that includes written language/record keeping, division of labor, food surplus, and complex institutions such as government and religions.
- 5. Worshiping more than one god.
- 7. Form of writing using symbols in clay developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia.
- 8. Society that formed one of the earliest empires in Mesopotamia.
- 10. One the first monotheistic religions developed by the Hebrew people in the Fertile Crescent.
- 11. Religion that developed in Persia and became very influential on other world religions with its central idea of good versus evil.
- 13. Kingdom created by the Hebrew people in their ‘promised land.’
- 15. Human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.
- 17. Egyptian ruler that is the combination of the political and religious authority.